 JTC 1/SC 39 will establish its own substructure. Based on discussions at the November 2011 ISO/IEC JTC 1 Plenary, it is anticipated that JTC 1/SC 39 will initially establish a Working Group on Energy Efficiency of Data Centers with the following terms of reference:

 Development of a data center energy efficiency taxonomy and vocabulary

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